Please put your hand back

[donnaTKD]

over here being liverpool - north wales corridor - wouldn't even get a slap on the wrist for laying someone out cold for showing bad manners or total disrespect and the cops know that so they don't do anything about it.

failure to shake their hand implies that they've got really bad germs n diseases n stuff - totally disrespectful to them and that's all that's needed (actually takes a lot less than that sometimes) unless you look at them wrong and then well yup............ pine box.........

and chances are that you wouldn't get done for that either --- it's part of the personal safety laws - "your honour he drew his hand back as if to hit me so i got in first to protect myself your honour"

slap on the wrist and maybe a small fine and told to behave from now on you just gotta love english/welsh justice

 

[Gnarlie]

over here being liverpool - north wales corridor - wouldn't even get a slap on the wrist for laying someone out cold for showing bad manners or total disrespect and the cops know that so they don't do anything about it.

failure to shake their hand implies that they've got really bad germs n diseases n stuff - totally disrespectful to them and that's all that's needed (actually takes a lot less than that sometimes) unless you look at them wrong and then well yup............ pine box.........

True dat.

 

[donald1]

I'm not sure if this website helps but it seems rather informative on the different greetings. Greeting Body Language

 

[donnaTKD]

put simply where i live any attempt at bad manners or disrespect will see you get street justice.

 

[Gnarlie]

put simply where i live any attempt at bad manners or disrespect will see you get street justice.

Eee it's grim oop north! I miss it sometimes.

 

[drop bear]

So this is why Australia has a low crime rate, because stuff over there is allowed which would be a crime in most other places.

Because people don't get away with acting like a goose.

 

[PhotonGuy]

The problem with "please put your hand back" is that it implies the other person has done something offensive by offering a normal gesture of goodwill.

Asking for somebody to make physical contact with you when they don't want to can be seen as offensive.

 

[PhotonGuy]

over here being liverpool - north wales corridor - wouldn't even get a slap on the wrist for laying someone out cold for showing bad manners or total disrespect and the cops know that so they don't do anything about it.

failure to shake their hand implies that they've got really bad germs n diseases n stuff - totally disrespectful to them and that's all that's needed (actually takes a lot less than that sometimes) unless you look at them wrong and then well yup............ pine box.........

and chances are that you wouldn't get done for that either --- it's part of the personal safety laws - "your honour he drew his hand back as if to hit me so i got in first to protect myself your honour"

slap on the wrist and maybe a small fine and told to behave from now on you just gotta love english/welsh justice

So in Wales you can assault people, interesting.

 

[donald1]

Asking for somebody to make physical contact with you when they don't want to can be seen as offensive.

Agreed, everyone culture has there belief and when when you are in a country where that culture its greeting is the proper thing to do for instance if I was in a country that used handshakes its formal and common courtesy but in a country that does no hand shake and instead a bow is the formal common courtesy there. I don't think they can be a better one because the different cultures have always decided what they think is good and bad

 

[Touch Of Death]

Just say, "Nice to meet you, but I would thank you to keep your nasty MRSA mitts away from me at all times!

 

[Blindside]

Asking for somebody to make physical contact with you when they don't want to can be seen as offensive.

Being an *** when someone is extending common courtesy will be seen as offensive.

 

[Dirty Dog]

Asking for somebody to make physical contact with you when they don't want to can be seen as offensive.

They're offering a handshake, which in western culture is a simple gesture of respect and courtesy. They're not trying to grab your crotch.

 

[Steve]

Personally. If I was really worried about it I would keep some purell in my pocket and shake the offered hand.




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[Dirty Dog]

Personally. If I was really worried about it I would keep some purell in my pocket and shake the offered hand.


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Also known as The Sheldon Solution...

 

[Tony Dismukes]

Asking for somebody to make physical contact with you when they don't want to can be seen as offensive.

Until you explain that you have a unusual thing about physical contact, the person offering to shake your hand has no way of knowing that you wouldn't appreciate it. If you have explained this clearly and politely to a particular person and they keep trying to shake your hand, then they are disrespecting your boundaries and you may reasonably take offence if you choose to. If you haven't and you decide to take offence because they are trying to show their goodwill, then that is your problem.

 

[PhotonGuy]

Being an *** when someone is extending common courtesy will be seen as offensive.

So refusing a handshake is being an ***?

 

[Touch Of Death]

So refusing a handshake is being an ***?

I would call it foolish, which means you a deliberately ignoring social morays.

 

[donald1]

I wouldn't say someone is an *** but in different cultures if a handshake is formal use then give them a handshake to people who shake hands it is a big deal to cultures who do other forms of greeting then that is that. If you go to a place where everyone shakes hands and you don't refuse to shake hands it can be offensive.

 

[Steve]

So refusing a handshake is being an ***?

I'd characterize it as rude, unless for whatever reason you don't have a right hand to extend, and in most cases, based upon my experience with amputees, they will often good-naturedly hold out their left hand to shake are are quick to smooth over any awkwardness.

Unless you have an easily identifiable reason for avoiding it, shaking a hand that is extended is just good manners.

The only reasonable explanation for not shaking hands so far that I've read in this thread were Ballen's. I COMPLETELY understand ballen's statements, when he's in uniform. Makes total sense to me.

 

[donald1]

Is it rude to wipe you're hand before shaking, I know I've had sweaty hands before and I wiped my hands off once before shaking hands